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The Lays of Boethius

With gait uplift,gazing upwards.
This is a tokenthat he shall turn
His trust and his mindmore up than down,
To the heavens above,lest he bend his thoughts
Like beasts earthward.It is not meet
That the mind of a mortalshould remain below
While his face he holdethup to heaven.